The other day while working out at the gym I noticed one of the TVs showing a big "Breaking News/Developing Story" headline on CNN which said "OHIO STOLEN?"
Lacking the benefit of audio, I wasn't aware of the context--what breaking news could involve Ohio being stolen? Did someone lose the state charter? Could a submarine named Ohio have fallen into the hands of Russian separatists, a la
24? If so, had Jack Bauer been notified?
No, after further investigation, the words "Ohio Stolen" turned out to be a reference to something much more tragic: the 2004 election.
RFK Jr. was on the TV talking about a piece he wrote for the latest
Rolling Stone. Kennedy's article,
"Was the 2004 election stolen?", basically rehashes all the crooked stuff that allegedly and not-so-allegedly went on to help Bush Jr. win the 2004 presidential vote in the state that calls itself "The Heart of it All."
For some reason, Fox News, which was showing on the TV directly to the right (appropriately enough), wasn't airing this story.
A
recent article on Salon asserted that RFK's compilation of facts is neither groundbreaking nor unbiased, which got Mr. Kennedy's attention. He responded by claiming the author of the article, Farhad Manjoo, is attempting to
"play a clumsy game of gotcha."
posted by Matt Borondy at 6/06/2006 11:35:00 AM 
